It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Either the Bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

I never not wanted to become an actress.

By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Great sport has intellectual beauty.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.